Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama . |
| 2 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 4 | I did not want to leave her without saying goodbye fairly . |
| 5 | He did not want to do it in front of the crowd . |
| 6 | For them , the change in leadership and the promise of reform opened up opportunities denied to the Red Guard generation and they did not want to jeopardise them by becoming too involved in a politically orientated movement . |
| 7 | A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call . |
| 8 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 9 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 10 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 11 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 12 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 13 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 14 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 15 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 16 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 17 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 18 | Although Thomas felt her husband had been stupid to bring a woman like this to the planet , he did not intend to abandon her to the mercy of the hostile environment and the murderous shapechanger . |
| 19 | She did not intend to commit herself to this man . |
| 20 | This , of course , caught the attention of many journalists , and St Mary 's did not fail to provide them with information . |
| 21 | TUC day of Action — The Union did not decide to do anything in support of the day . |
| 22 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 23 | He did not stop to warn them of any of the unseen hazards he was first to discover . |
| 24 | Six of 116 general practitioners in Surrey admitted not cleaning their thermometers while others did not bother to use them at all . |
| 25 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 26 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 27 | Robert did not like to remind her about the nature of her costume . |
| 28 | As he left , though he did not like to admit it to himself , Huy felt his sadness tempered with relief . |
| 29 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 30 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |